Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque (22 June 1898-25 September 1970) was a German novelist who famously wrote All Quiet on the Western Front, a 1928 anti-war novel about World War I.

Biography
Erich Paul Remark was born in Osnabruck, Lower Saxony, German Empire in 1898, and he was conscripted into the Imperial German Army at the age of 18 during World War I. He served in Flanders, Belgium during the war, suffering shrapnel wounds on 31 July 1917. After the war, he worked as a teacher, librarian, businessman, journalist, and editor, and he wrote the anti-war novel All Quiet on the Western Front in 1928. After the Nazi Party seized power, Remarque went into exile in Switzerland and the United States, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1947. His younger sister, who stayed behind in Nazi Germany during World War II, was beheaded for treason in 1943. In 1948, Remarque returned to Switzerland, and he died in Locarno in 1970.